line-shooter
- noun
- Offensive
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- Everyone at the meeting was rolling their eyes as the line-shooter told yet another exaggerated story.
Examples
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You can't always believe what a line-shooter says about their accomplishments.
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At parties, he's known as a real line-shooter, always boasting about himself.
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Don't be such a line-shooter at the party!
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He is a notorious line-shooter.
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At parties, he's known as a real line-shooter, always boasting about his latest achievements.
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Everyone at the meeting groaned while the line-shooter recounted his incredible, but clearly exaggerated, tale.
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It's hard to take his claims seriously; he's just another line-shooter who loves to exaggerate his successes.
Synonyms
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8.2
A person who talks too much and brags about themselves
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7.7
A person who talks a lot about themselves to show off
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4.9
A person who talks proudly about their success or things they own
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4.4
A person who talks too proudly about their successes or things they own
A person who often brags about what they have done in a proud way
A person who brags loudly to get attention
A person who boasts in a loud, proud way
A person who walks and acts very confidently, often bragging
How Boastful
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Morphology
Etymology
Line-shooter comes from the image of someone who 'shoots' out lines, meaning short boastful phrases, and shooter is the person who does this. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine someone firing boastful phrases like bullets, so a line-shooter is someone who talks too much and makes exaggerated claims.